Business planners and transactional lawyers know just how much the number-crunching disciplines overlap with business law. Even when the law does not require unincorporated business associations and closely held corporations to adopt generally accepted accounting principles, lawyers frequently deal with tax implications in choice of entity, the allocation of ownership interests, and the myriad other planning and dispute resolution circumstances in which accounting comes into play. In practice, unincorporated business association law (as contrasted with corporate law) has tended to be the domain of lawyers with tax and accounting orientation. Yet many law professors still struggle with the reality that their students (and sometimes the professors themselves) are not numerate enough to make these important connections. While recognizing the importance of numeracy, the basic course cannot in itself be devoted wholly to primers in accounting, tax, and finance.
The program will be devoted to the critically important, but much-neglected, topic of effectively incorporating accounting, tax, and finance into courses in the law of business associations. Presentations will include invited speakers and those selected from a call for papers.
Business meeting at program conclusion.